A new kind of Jew.Forty-five years ago, Alyssa Stanton was born into an African-American, Pentecostal family in Cleveland. On Saturday, at the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College, she became a rabbi — the first African-American woman to be ordained by a mainstream Jewish seminary.
Ms. Stanton is scheduled to assume the leadership of an overwhelmingly white synagogue in Greenville, N.C., in August.
Article: New York Times, June 5th.
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